Word: hellishness
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Even in a turbulent era rocked by Birminghams and Little Rocks, the hellish rioting in Watts in the mid-1960s set a stunning new level for civil violence. Touched off improbably enough by a simple traffic arrest that brought police and blacks into conflict, the disturbance rumbled into rock-throwing disorder that soon exploded into almost a week of looting, arson and assault. With entire blocks reduced to ash and rubble, the name Watts came to signify not just a black ghetto in south-central Los Angeles but black unrest across the U.S. By the time troops and police brought...
...then Under Secretary of State John Bolton calls Kim a "tyrannical dictator" whose people's lives are a "hellish nightmare." Pyongyang dubs Bolton a "bloodsucker" and "human scum...
When I received a copy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Handbook last summer, I did what any diligent Harvard student would do: I read it. Or, to be fair, I skimmed it very carefully, and I found one important morsel. Having just finished a hellish senior year that involved a taxing battle between the student newspaper and the high school administration, I was glad to read that the Harvard faculty believed that “By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect...
...Korea speech Bolton gave in July 2003, just days before the launch of delicate six-nation talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons program. The speech--in which Bolton vilified Kim Jong Il as a "tyrannical dictator" and said life in North Korea was a "hellish nightmare"--infuriated the North Korean government and, U.S. diplomats say, nearly torpedoed the talks. In defending his undiplomatic language, Bolton told Senators that it had been cleared by relevant officials and that Hubbard had personally thanked...
...pain from her injuries, the soldier stopped. The incident made her an instant celebrity in the U.S. - living proof that even under the worst circumstances, American women were fit for combat. But Cornum, 50, says she put that "in pile B" of what she endured, compared to the hellish pain of her wounds and being almost bombed by U.S. jets strafing nearby targets. Being 36 at the time, with a toughened hide, helped. "I'd dealt with a number of people who'd died in helicopter wrecks before," she says, sitting on a couch in her office, which is decorated...